Printup faces fifth petition to revoke his probation

Deputies lead Darius Printup from a Tippecanoe County courtroom Tuesday morning after Printup had an initial hearing on a petition to revoke his probation from Tippecanoe Superior 6.(Photo: Ron Wilkins/Journal & Courier)

LAFAYETTE — Twenty-one-year-old Darius Printup now faces his fifth petition to revoke his probation since his Feb. 7 release from jail after serving sentences here and in Jasper County.

On Tuesday, Printup, whom jurors acquitted of murder in July 2017, had an initial hearing for a petition to revoke his probation filed in Tippecanoe Superior 6, where Printup has a 360-day suspended sentence on convictions of leaving the scene of an accident, false informing and a learner's permit violation.

Printup also learned that prosecutors filed a fourth petition to revoke his probation in Tippecanoe Superior 4 stemming from his March 23 arrest, in which police say they found methamphetamine hidden inside the car Printup was driving.

An initial hearing was conducted Tuesday morning on the new Superior 4 petition, too.

Printup asked whether the petition to revoke his probation filed his Superior 6 case might be piling on since prosecutors already have petitioned to revoke probation in another court.

Tippecanoe County Judge Daniel Moore explained that the petitions to revoke can be filed in each court, and each judge would decide whether to order part or all of the suspended sentences might be ordered served.

Moore explained that Printup has four petitions to revoke his probation in Superior 4. In that instance, the judge can order incarceration only for the suspended sentences in that court. So one or four petitions to revoke his probation can only result in jail time for the unserved time in that particular court.

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